Learning Log

Today in class we talked about Digital Stories. I am still a little fuzzy of what they are, but I think that I have the just of it. A digital story is pictures that tell a story and then the author puts words to go with the picture. You can tell a story about anything that you want to. Today we decided what we are going to do our digital study on, this was actually harder than I thought it would be, because I wanted to pick something that I could use when I did my field work. I chose to do my digital story on the difference in geography and culture between New England, middle colonies, and Southern colonies. I chose this because I figured that I might be able to use it because it is in the social studies fifth grade core. I am doing my field work in a fifth grade class. We also talked about scripting, scripting is figuring out what words you want to say that will go with your pictures. I will be able to use digital stories in my classroom by having the students create their digital stories, or I could make one as the teacher to introduce a topic. I think that I could have a lot of fun with digital stories.